Common after birth
Red birthmarks often appear at birth or shortly after birth, often in the neck and head, mostly unilateral, rarely bilateral, and sometimes involving mucous membranes.
Various colors and shapes
At first, red birthmarks are reddish, dark red or purplish red spots of different sizes. Visible capillary dilation, smooth surface, pressure will fade, with the growth of age will continue to expand, easy to bleed after trauma. A red birthmark is a relatively flat plaque composed of countless dilated capillaries. The focus area increases with the growth of the body and exists at birth. Generally it is dark red, orange and purple.
There are many treatments.
There are many treatments for red birthmark, including laser treatment, surgical resection and drug treatment. Among them, laser therapy is one of the most commonly used treatment methods at present, which destroys vascular endothelial cells through the thermal effect of laser, thus achieving the therapeutic effect. Surgical resection is suitable for patients with minor lesions, but it is easy to leave scars after operation. Drug therapy is mainly to adjust the endocrine level of patients through oral or topical drugs, so as to achieve therapeutic effect.